A local history of the Avoca district in the Fingal Valley of north-east Tasmania, covering the period from 1834 to 1984. Avoca sits in the valley of the South Esk River between Fingal and Conara, in country that was among the earliest settled pastoral land in north-east Tasmania.
Steps to the Scaffold traces the campaigns of Tasmania's Aboriginal bushrangers - among them Musquito, Black Tom Birch, Black Jack, Black Dick, Pevay and Timmy - through the lead-up to the Black War of 1826-31 and its individual figures' own stories.
Stock Thieves and Golfers follows the social history of Kangaroo Bay and Bellerive, on Hobart's eastern shore, from 1803 to 1998.

